FTA: "Instead of an actual insect, they placed a dry leaf in the web. And instead of shaking the web by hand, they used a reproducible source of vibrations - a pink Minivibe Bubbles personal massager, from Fun Factory. "

Satan's Bunny Slippers:FTA: "Instead of an actual insect, they placed a dry leaf in the web. And instead of shaking the web by hand, they used a reproducible source of vibrations - a pink Minivibe Bubbles personal massager, from Fun Factory. "

Satan's Bunny Slippers:FTA: "Instead of an actual insect, they placed a dry leaf in the web. And instead of shaking the web by hand, they used a reproducible source of vibrations - a pink Minivibe Bubbles personal massager, from Fun Factory. "

I want your skull:Satan's Bunny Slippers: FTA: "Instead of an actual insect, they placed a dry leaf in the web. And instead of shaking the web by hand, they used a reproducible source of vibrations - a pink Minivibe Bubbles personal massager, from Fun Factory. "

Did we really need that kind of detail?

NTTAWWT

They wanted to make sure you know it's not this type of vibrator:[i.imgur.com image 547x505]

I want your skull:Satan's Bunny Slippers: FTA: "Instead of an actual insect, they placed a dry leaf in the web. And instead of shaking the web by hand, they used a reproducible source of vibrations - a pink Minivibe Bubbles personal massager, from Fun Factory. "

Did we really need that kind of detail?

NTTAWWT

They wanted to make sure you know it's not this type of vibrator:[i.imgur.com image 547x505]

Satan's Bunny Slippers:I want your skull: Satan's Bunny Slippers: FTA: "Instead of an actual insect, they placed a dry leaf in the web. And instead of shaking the web by hand, they used a reproducible source of vibrations - a pink Minivibe Bubbles personal massager, from Fun Factory. "

Did we really need that kind of detail?

NTTAWWT

They wanted to make sure you know it's not this type of vibrator:[i.imgur.com image 547x505]

In addition to being among the relatively few social spider species, S. sarasinorum also display a curious trait called suicidal maternal care. It's as cheerful as it sounds: After a few weeks of mothering, female spiders allow themselves to be cannibalized by their offspring. "They start kind of liquefying their body from inside," Grinsted said. "The babies crawl on top of these females and start biting them and suck out the juices. The adult females sit still and let them do that."

In addition to being among the relatively few social spider species, S. sarasinorum also display a curious trait called suicidal maternal care. It's as cheerful as it sounds: After a few weeks of mothering, female spiders allow themselves to be cannibalized by their offspring. "They start kind of liquefying their body from inside," Grinsted said. "The babies crawl on top of these females and start biting them and suck out the juices. The adult females sit still and let them do that."

For the record, spiders are surprisingly smart. Had a big rose haired tarantula once, which displayed some pretty interesting behaviors. It would just sit there all day long not moving, but if I ever left the cover off it's cage, the spider would suddenly be "missing".

Kept it in a 10 gallon aquarium, but at first I couldn't find a proper screen cover for the top. Tried saran warp for starters, but my roommate wasn't pleased when it kept finding a way out. The thing gave me recurring nightmares, so I was relieved when it finally died.

/only handled it once...until I saw it clean its fangs. Yes I'm a pussy.

I like this one. The other one skull did was just.....well, *I* have the lady parts...NO spider needs to be near the lady parts!

Otherwise, unless they're REALLY HUGE and in my HOUSE, I'm kinda ok with them. If they are doing anything to be in my way, like the one currently living between the window/storm window in my back room, meh, they can stay as long as they would like.

I like this one. The other one skull did was just.....well, *I* have the lady parts...NO spider needs to be near the lady parts!

Otherwise, unless they're REALLY HUGE and in my HOUSE, I'm kinda ok with them. If they are doing anything to be in my way, like the one currently living between the window/storm window in my back room, meh, they can stay as long as they would like.

Stay out of my bed, and my shower. And toilet. Don't go there either.

This

I would rather have spiders than the bugs they eat. My only caveat is if they are over thumb size, they go outside. I have a cat that likes to eat spiders and I don't want him to take a chomp on something that can chomp back.

In addition to being among the relatively few social spider species, S. sarasinorum also display a curious trait called suicidal maternal care. It's as cheerful as it sounds: After a few weeks of mothering, female spiders allow themselves to be cannibalized by their offspring. "They start kind of liquefying their body from inside," Grinsted said. "The babies crawl on top of these females and start biting them and suck out the juices. The adult females sit still and let them do that."

FTA: Forty spiders from each colony were chosen to participate in the next stage of the experiment, and the scientists marked individuals with three colored dots so they could tell them apart (the other spiders got to go home).

cyberbenali:FTA: Forty spiders from each colony were chosen to participate in the next stage of the experiment, and the scientists marked individuals with three colored dots so they could tell them apart (the other spiders got to go home).

Add this to the long list of "Shiat grad students do to get a Ph.D."

Fark that noise. That's what you get the undergrads to do. The unpaid undergrads.